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My buddie says that there are several states that will not allow the dims to put another candidate on their ballot for President. He says, ITS THE LAW. Then I tell him the law is for republicans and suckers because the dims simply get a judge to go around the law. There was an incident I need help remembering. I believe it was a senate election in NJ some years ago, maybe in the 90s. The dim nominee either withdrew or died or something within weeks of the election and the NJ law didn't allow them to put anyone else...

CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed during a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy West Point that he turned down an offer to play football at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. VERDICT: False. Biden has previously told different versions of this claim to graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. In his claim, Biden says he applied to the Naval Academy in order to play football. He was appointed to the Naval Academy by former Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (R) in 1965. However, the president graduated from the University...

Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) will be appointed the U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs, the State Department announced Monday. The role will involve focusing on advancing economic development and investment opportunities in Northern Ireland. It will also focus on “strengthening people-to-people ties between the United States and Northern Ireland,” according to the State Department. The role is intended to build on the U.S. commitment to stability in Northern Ireland and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. President Biden, through his time in office, has stressed his commitment to protecting the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

Singer Rihanna has said she "couldn't be more proud" after being given a new ambassadorial role by the government of Barbados. The artist, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was named "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" for her home country on Thursday. The role involves promoting education, tourism and investment. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said she was honoured to confer the title.

Seven of 15 outside health advisors appointed to recommend ways to improve veterans’ health services over the next two decades have proposed shutting down all VA medical centers and outpatient services, and having its nine million enrollees get their medical care in the private sector. The 34-page “straw man” document released by the congressionally-created Commission on Care, calls for an immediate halt to construction of new VA hospitals and clinics, and launch of a “BRAC-like process” to begin closing existing facilities. Shuttering the largest medical system in the country would leave the VA to be “primarily a payor” for the...

Sarah Palin deserves an apology. When she said that the new health-care law would lead to "death panels" deciding who gets life-saving treatment and who does not, she was roundly denounced and ridiculed. Now we learn, courtesy of one of the ridiculers -- The New York Times -- that she was right. Under a new policy not included in the law for fear the administration's real end-of-life game would be exposed, a rule issued by the recess-appointed Dr. Donald M. Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

President Obama will select Elizabeth Warren to join the administration in a special advisory role to help form the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a watchdog agency she first proposed back in 2007. The move, first reported by ABC News' Jake Tapper, gives Warren an important role in creation of the bureau, but avoids, for now, a confirmation fight in the Senate. Her selection will appease a slew of prominent lawmakers, progressives, and labor unions who in recent months have clamored for her nomination to the post. After all, the new agency -- part of the sweeping Wall Street reform...

Under pressure from Senate Republicans, Eric Holder has finally admitted that the "post-partisan" candidate for "change" has appointed nine separate ultra-liberal, America-hating Gitmo terror-apologists to sensitive posts within the Department of Justice...

LONDON (AFP) - A woman is to overturn over 500 years of tradition by becoming the first-ever female Beefeater at the Tower of London, a newspaper reported. Beefeaters, a familiar sight to tourists in their red and gold uniforms, guard the tower, where the British crown jewels are kept, but also act as tour guides. Up to now, the 35-strong group, also known as yeoman warders, has been all-male but now the authorities have broken with tradition. "The Tower of London is in the process of appointing its first female yeoman warder," a spokeswoman for Historic Royal Palaces, which runs...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Patricia Clarey, who resigned as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's chief of staff last month, was appointed Thursday to the State Personnel Board. Clarey, who served former Gov. Pete Wilson and worked in President Reagan's administration, was Schwarzenegger's chief of staff since he took office in 2003. She was replaced with Susan Kennedy, a Democratic activist whose appointment sparked an angry backlash from some Republicans. The personnel board arbitrates disputes between state workers and managers. It also is charged with ensuring that the state's employment system is free from political patronage pressures. Clarey's appointment is subject to confirmation by...

Calling the shots   By Mindelle Jacobs   7-5-05     While Americans brace themselves for a contentious battle over who replaces departing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Canadians are spared such indecorum. A certain amount of brash inquisitiveness is expected in politics. It's part of what a democracy is all about. President George W. Bush will nominate someone to replace O'Connor and then the Senate Judiciary Committee will have a go at the candidate, followed by the entire Senate. The grilling process isn't always pretty but it's the price the U.S. pays for openness and accountability...

"The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them." – Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821. Interview with North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby NCC: Justice Newby, thank you for taking the time to acquaint our readers with your judicial philosophy. I just have a few questions for you this evening. You ran on a platform emphasizing judicial restraint, could you elaborate...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

NAACP: Nonpartisan Branch of the Democratic Party By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 16, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms NAACP Chairman Julian Bond claims his organization is “nonpartisan” while at the same time using vitriolic rhetoric to attack the Bush administration. Why would President Bush wish to speak before the NAACP after the way in which they’ve treated him? Some claim Bush should swallow his pride and speak before the group in the interest of “outreach.” I would argue that Bush has already engaged in more outreach than any other administration in U.S. history: 2001: President George W. Bush appoints: Condoleezza Rice, Assistant...

Daschle: Move Dem nominees By Geoff Earle Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) is threatening to stall President Bush’s judicial nominees if the president does not take action soon to appoint more than a dozen Democrats to government boards and commissions. Daschle met privately with Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) shortly before Congress began its latest recess and warned that if ongoing negotiations don’t bring results, the movement to confirm the president’s judicial nominees — already stalled by Democratic opposition — could grind to a complete halt. “There has to be a reciprocal treatment of nominees,” Daschle said in a...

US troops arrest Iraqi mayor they appointed American troops arrested the US appointed mayor of the southern Iraqi city of Najaf and several of his aides on corruption charges today. Abdel-Muneim Amer Aboud was held in his office in the Shiite city. He was installed by the Americans shortly after they entered the city in April, but the former Iraqi army colonel faced local opposition because of his military background. Aboud was replaced by Haidar Mahdi al-Mayali. Details of al-Mayali's background was not immediately available. A statement by the US led provisional authority said Aboud was also wanted on suspicion...

Arabic-Speaking General Picked As Next USD CentCom Head WASHINGTON (AP)--An Arabic-speaking Army general of Lebanese descent has been nominated to replace Gen. Tommy Franks as head of U.S. Central Command, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. The nomination of Lt. Gen. John Abizaid, currently second-in-command under Franks, was widely expected since Franks announced last month he would retire this summer. Abizaid must be confirmed by the Senate before taking the reins at Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations from the Horn of Africa to Central Asia, including Iraq and a large swath of the Middle East. Abizaid, a grandson of...